Before Xu Yijing got on the plane, I repeatedly told her that health and health are the most important, and there is always a way to solve the problem of money.

After seeing her enter the security check, the strings that I had been nervous on the way suddenly loosened, and I felt like I had no strength, and I was completely unenergetic. Lin Jiangnan bought me a cup of coffee, "Don't worry too much." ”

I took a sip, it was very bitter, so I frowned and said, "I have never seen Xu Yijing like this, she was panicked." ”

"Although the problem of money is very devastating, there is always a way to solve it, more than four million sounds scary, but when you think about the housing prices in Beijing, it feels nothing."

I smiled, sighed, and nodded, "yes, compared to Beijing's housing prices, that's it." It's just that this time, Xu Yijing's relationship with her parents may be even worse. ”

"Leaving such a big problem to the children to solve, this Sister Xu's parents are indeed quite different."

"I don't really know what his parents think. Actually, I didn't understand her parents before, they have been doing business in other places, leaving them to the elderly after giving birth, and they are not doing a big business, a big deal, do you say that the money you make is really worth it? made the family so estranged. ”

"It's not worth it." His tone was very crisp and affirmative, even with a hint of imperceptible resentment. I looked sideways slightly and said, "But maybe poverty is even more of a problem." ”

"If Sister Xu's parents don't go into business, will the family be poor and unable to live?"

"That's not going to happen." I sighed, "Forget it, I don't know the whole picture of other people's affairs, so I still won't talk about it." ”

It was almost ten o'clock in the evening when the car drove back to the city, and Lin Jiangnan accompanied me home. The lights were on at home, and I didn't even think to turn off the lights when I left, and the noodles I made a few hours ago were still hanging on the table, already in a lump. The three glasses of red wine were still on the table, barely moving.

Lin Jiangnan and I looked at the dinner table and sighed at the same time.

The two of us threw away what should be thrown away, and collected what should be collected, Lin Jiangnan left the plate of beef tendon and red wine, and brought it to the coffee table, "If you don't drink red wine, you won't be able to drink it tomorrow, just order some beef, and the province will be hungry at night." ”

"Alas, this meal is really ......," I pinched a piece of beef tendon and put it in my mouth, "I wanted to make you a dumpling, but the dumpling didn't make it; I changed the noodles, thinking that it would be a long and short delivery, and I would catch the wind for you, but I didn't expect the noodles to be eaten in the end. ”

"Why did you remember to make dumplings for me?"

"How so?" I took a sip of red wine, "You call me on Chinese New Year's Eve, listen to your quiet over there, and then you will return to Beijing today, I thought you didn't have dumplings and Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in Xi'an." ”

"Strange and pathetic?"

I smiled apologetically, "That's a little bit of a feeling." ”

As we drank red wine and ate beef, he said to me, "I spent my sister's house on Chinese New Year's Eve, along with my brother-in-law and nephew, and my brother-in-law's parents. ”

"Awkward?"

"Awkward. Awkwardness is for sure. So after dinner, I went home first, oh, that is, my grandparents' house, and I went back to Xi'an to live there. ”

"What about your parents?"

He was silent for a while, as if hesitating, as if he didn't know how to say, "I lived with my grandparents since I was a child, until I came to Beijing to go to university, so I feel that my grandparents' house is home, there is an environment that I am familiar with, I know where things are placed, and the house I lived in since I was a child has not changed, and I will feel more comfortable." ”

I suddenly understood why he said that tone and expression when he talked about Xu Yijing's parents at the airport, and I thought it was a substitute for his own growth.

"It's similar to Sister Xu's situation." He smiled, "But my sister grew up with her parents. My dad loves my sister very much, my parents were not so busy when my sister was born, so they have been with me since I was a child, and when I was born, they basically couldn't take care of the children, so they put them at my grandparents' place, and then hired a nanny to take me with them. ”

I tapped him lightly on the back and picked up his glass, and we touched it without saying anything. Piggy came out of the corner and saw Lin Jiangnan, this time it didn't run, but clumsily jumped on the sofa and climbed onto his lap again.

Lin Jiangnan stroked the back of Piggy's head like a loving father, "When I was a child, I always felt that my parents didn't like me, and it may be true, they didn't love me as much as my sister, after all, the children raised by themselves and the children brought up by others are emotionally different." ”

"Maybe because you're a boy, they educate differently?"

Lin Jiangnan shook his head gently, "It's all over anyway, and they're all gone." When I was a child, I didn't lack food, I didn't lack clothes, I didn't lack toys, I couldn't wear too many clothes, I was too lazy to play with many toys, but I lacked my parents, and when I was a child, I envied the children who could go to the playground with my parents. So before you asked me if it was worth it to give up my children to earn money, of course it was not worth it from my point of view. He smiled again, "But it may also be a lack of something, if there is a real lack of money, what I am complaining about now may be something else, anyway, people want to complain, there are always complaints." ”

"I heard you say that you have a 'good love inheritance', I thought you had lived a very happy life since you were a child." I raised my hand, hesitated for a moment when it stopped at the side of his head, and then gently stroked his hair, "It's a bitter boy too." ”

He half-leaned back on the couch and turned his head to look at me, smiling subtly and intently, and seeing my heart pound. I turned my head away, "Don't look at me like that, I'm not very comforting." ”

"You comforted me just now, or you can comfort me twice."

"Go aside." I didn't look back, and went back with a smile.

I heard him sigh slightly, "My parents' love is very beautiful, if they weren't so affectionate, maybe my mother would choose to take care of me." When I was born, my dad was very busy, my sister was much older than me, she was in high school at that time, and her husband and daughter needed her to take care of her. ”

"Your sister is so much older than you!"

"Yes, sixteen years older than me, forty years old this year, and my nephews are in elementary school." He picked up Piggy from his lap and put it aside, sat up, "Speaking of my sister, it's actually ......"

My phone vibrate, it was a call from Xu Yijing, and I quickly answered it. Xu Yijing told me that she had arrived home and that her parents had also been contacted.

"Where did they go?" I asked.

"Thailand. They thought about hiding this year first, and then asking relatives and friends to borrow money to pay off their debts after the new year. said that he didn't want us to know, and we would worry about it. I didn't expect my brother to come back suddenly. Xu Yijing sneered dissatisfiedly, "I don't know if what they said is true or false." ”

"Regardless of whether it's true or not, let the old couple come back quickly, and the family can discuss how to solve it when they are together."

"Family." Xu Yijing smiled again, "My brother complains about my father and mother; My dad complained to my mom, saying that my uncle had always been unreliable, and he had to vouch for him; My mom complained that my brother and I were disobedient. Anyway, now it's just complaining to each other, what a family! Hell if you can negotiate something. ”

"Are there many people in the family who want to pay the bill? Are you safe? ”

"Safety, not usury." She sighed deeply, "It's okay, I'm just really panicking, I'll call you and tell you." The two of you in Thailand are preparing to fly back, so let's talk about it when we come back. ”

"Have you taken a leave of absence from your company?"

"Well, I've taken all this year's annual leave."

I looked up at my watch, and before I knew it, it was past twelve o'clock, so I said to her, "You should rest early." In any case, the body is important, you should sleep, you should eat, and staying up will not solve the problem. ”

"Okay, I got it."

After hanging up the phone, I looked at the phone for a while, and said to Lin Jiangnan: "Xu Yijing is Xu Yijing in the end, I feel that my state has been adjusted." ”

"That's good." Lin Jiangnan drank all the red wine in the wine glass, "I should leave too." Then he put down his glass and was stunned, "It's bad, I can't drive after drinking." ”

"What then?"

"Let's take a taxi." He took out his phone and sent an order for a taxi.

"What about the pigs?" I asked again.

"I'll come over tomorrow morning to pick it up again, it's a lot of belongings, it's too inconvenient to take a taxi." Lin Jiangnan's taxi software has not moved, no one took the order, he sent it again, "No car." ”

"It's more than twelve o'clock in the middle of the night on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and it is estimated that the driver will not get out of the car." I struggled inwardly as I spoke, looking at my watch and his phone, looking at his phone and then looking at my watch, the taxi software on his phone screen continued to send orders, but there was no response, these dozens of seconds I felt quite long in my heart, and finally I finally got my heart crossed, reached over and pressed the cancel order on his phone.

"Forget it." I say.

"What's the matter?"

"It's so late, you can't get a taxi, and you'll have to run over tomorrow morning to pick up the pigs."

He looked like he wanted to laugh a little, pursed his lips vigorously, and nodded seriously, "Yes, it's quite a toss." ”

I also wanted to laugh a little, and the conversation changed, "But I can't help it." Otherwise, go back. ”

"Don't!" He laughed out loud with a failed expression, "Please, have mercy on me." He patted the sofa and said, "Give me a quilt, and I'll just spend the night here." You listen to the north wind blowing outside, you see it's dark, I don't wear autumn pants! ”

I laughed along and stood up, "Wait." ”

"Okay." He looked happy, leaned over the couch, and stretched out his hand, "Come, hug." ”

As soon as I walked to the door of the room, I stopped and looked back at him, and he pointed to the pig next to the coffee table with an innocent expression, "I'll tell it." ”

I took out a quilt and a clean quilt cover and threw it to Lin Jiangnan for him to put it on, found a pair of disposable slippers, and then took a new toothbrush out and put it in the bathroom. When I went back to the room to change clothes and came out, Lin Jiangnan had already taken off his coat and was only wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt, sitting on the sofa with the quilt on his legs.

I watched him at the door, wondering if he was wearing pants under the quilt, and he seemed to read the question from my gaze, so he lifted the quilt.

The pants are still the same pants.